I recommand to list readers this new article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the Google/Yahoo/Microsoft book digitization projects: A Risky Gamble...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
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Dec 8, 2005 6:20 am
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A correspondent reports about my posting of a pointer to Siva ... Whoops, I had not realized that access to the URL ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Dec 10, 2005 5:50 pm
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Access to Knowledge Conference Yale Information Society Project April 21-23, 2006 Yale Law School http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html The...
List readers may be interested in the debate between Nature and Encyclopaedia Britannica on the accuracy of online encyclopedias: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Apr 3, 2006 8:00 pm
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This new article on the Google book project may be of interest: @String{j-IEEE-SEC-PRIV = "IEEE Security \& Privacy"} @Article{Lesk:2006:SIF, author =...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Apr 4, 2006 1:13 am
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On April 18, 1906 at 5:12am a massive earthquake shook San Francisco. The resulting destruction and resulting fire left this great city in ruins. As we...
Molly Bragg
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Apr 19, 2006 2:09 pm
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Sent by the Library of Congress Guild to highlight the risk of quasi-privatization of some of the LOC image archives. - Greg Johnson From: "Guild"...
Greg Johnson
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Apr 19, 2006 2:11 pm
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In a message dated 4/19/2006 10:12:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, gjohnson@... writes: Sent by the Library of Congress Guild to highlight the risk of ...
It sometimes seems as though our administration is more interested in opening access to the public national records of other countries than it is to our own. ...
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Presents: The Bay Area Education Leaders Forum (EdForum) "How to Be Systemic and Site-Based:...
Call for Papers: ICUDL 2006 The 2nd International Conference on Universal Digital Library "Towards building the globally owned Universal Digital Library where...
Youssef Eldakar
youssef.eldakar@...
Sep 2, 2006 2:20 pm
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The proliferation of digital data is a sure sign that we are getting deeper and deeper into the knowledge economy. But have we made any effort to ensure that...
I have an entirely contrary point of view to the previous author. ... available. ... If someone had copied the analog Apollo tapes to digital format, we would...
In a message dated 10/27/2006 1:36:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, brad@... writes: Something similar could be done for important archives. Keep five,...
... Brad then goes on with a plan to make many redundant copies with some crypto to ensure that the Bits are as they were at the time the Digital documnet was...
There is a news story [in French] of book digitization projects here: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Nov 6, 2006 2:44 pm
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... Actually a one-way hash is not strictly speaking, cryptography. Thinking of it as a digital thumbprint is probably the best way of metaphorizing it. ... ...
Brad Jensen wrote: ... And Brad said. ... I am not wanting to sound like I am arguing, and I relaise that I might 8) What I am trying to get across is that a...
The arguments so far have been very interesting but our collections issue is that most if not all the most current imagery we are receiving into our collection...
**Remote participation in the A2K2 conference on the accompanyong Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2. We invite you to contribute...
Hi all, A new web site is now online, http://www.mortalityschedules.com and it is a directory of every found transcription of the census mortality schedules...
I'm wondering why somebody like the National Archives doesn't put out a specification for a scratch-resistant, archival quality CD and DVD? Or maybe the...
For those who are not aware, there is a computational procedure you can do for any digital file, that creates a unique number, called a hash, that only matches...
I have often argued that producing longer-lived storage media would not be cost-effective, since they will become obsolete before they wear out. It makes...
Jeff Rothenberg
jeff@...
Jul 10, 2007 8:11 pm
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Archival quality CD-R and DVD-R disks exist. I order mine from: http://www.photo-accessories.com.au/ See: ...
Without knowing the technical details, the idea makes sense, but I wonder if the Library of Congress, under their NDIPP program, would be the more appropriate...
Chris Prom
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Jul 25, 2007 1:03 am
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I understand archivists have been burned by the many formats and generations of magnetic tape, but CDs have now been available for 25 years, and current drives...
Dunno if this will get to the list, but..... 7 years ago, I burned all our family home movies to DVD. Today, most are scratched, unrreadable, and in quite...
Jim Carroll
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Jul 25, 2007 1:31 am
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... Yes, digital storage makes for a binary result, it would either still be perfect, or it would have lost a few bits along the way and would be a pixelated...
In the last few years, an increasing share of the books added to Project Runeberg (runeberg.org, the Scandinavian e-text archive) have been digitally...
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